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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · 2d

A streetcar reaches the end of the Route 74 line on Upshur Street NW at Rock Creek Church Road NW, in 1957. The Eagle Gate of the US Soldiers Home is just behind the photographer.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · 3d

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Anti-immigrant riots shook American cities. In D.C., Marines were sent into the streets.

This was 1857, and violence had been fanned by the American Party, which posited that the influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for declining moral standards.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · 4d

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Once filled with pigeons, historic D.C. church undergoes $30M renovation

A $30 million restoration effort seeks to save the National Baptist Memorial Church from a fate suffered by aging churches across the country that have been shuttered or repurposed for other uses.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · 17d

New on SoW: Early steamboat excursions on the Potomac:

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Excursions on the Potomac - Part I

Steamboats to Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall have a long history

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Harry Loveless's Union Station hotels

Two 1920s hotels and an Art Deco apartment house on E Street NW

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Jimmy Lake, the Mayor of Ninth Street

He ran a thriving nightspot on what was called Washington's Broadway.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Joseph and Stella Lapiana, natives of Sicily, opened the Cavalier Restaurant on 14th Street in Columbia Heights in 1940. The Cavalier was one of the earliest restaurants in DC to offer authentic Italian pizza. In 1949, the Lapianas sold it to “Gentleman Jim” Hance, who moved it to Twinbrook MD.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Aug 11

New on SoW, an enduring preservation success story:
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Saving the Magnificent Warner Theater

It's the last of the city's 1920s vaudeville/movie palaces.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Aug 9

A streetcar (Route 72/74) makes its way along Maine Avenue SW, along the Southwest waterfront in May 1957. Docked at the waterfront is the USS Davis, a Forrest-Sherman class destroyer that had just been commissioned and was stopping at Washington for Armed Forces Day celebrations.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Jul 25

Rehoboth Beach boardwalk--postcard view from the 1950s

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Jul 21

Remembering the Bonus Army 93 years ago:

In July 1932, the Army attacked its own veterans in DC

The "Bonus Army" protesters were routed and their encampments destroyed.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Jul 7

Remembering a nearly lost DC restaurant tradition...

Seafood and rum buns on the Southwest waterfront

Contrary to urban legend, Hogate's didn't invent rum buns.

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Streets of Washington @streetsofdc.bsky.social · Jul 4

This Hagerstown, Maryland railroad depot was built in 1890 and designed by E. Francis Baldwin in the trendy Romanesque style. It was demolished shortly after World War II. An almost identical station once stood at the Catholic University of America in DC. It was torn down in the mid 1980s.